There is also IBM Tivoli License Compliance Manager for z/OS (formerly
SoftAudit) which can be used to monitor this (as well as track use of
software products in general).
Bill
On Fri, 6 Jun 2008 08:20:25 -0500, Mark Zelden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Fri, 6 Jun 2008 08:29:24 +0200, Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3)
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>>Having read all of the posts in this thread, I am unsure if the
>>>objective is:
>
>>My colleague, who is the OP, needs to find out if a certain load
>>library is still being used by batch jobs. A scan of all the JCL
>>libraries is not feasible, because first, he can't be sure he'd
>>know all the sources and, second and more important, there is
>>good chance that JCL is being dynamically built and the library
>>name might be built from, e.g. scheduler variables.
>>
>>The best solution we've been able to find so far is to use RACF
>>auditing and to analyze SMF 80 records. The library in question
>>will be protected with a fully qualified generic profile and
>>AUDIT(ALL) will be set. This will give us the information that
>>library xyz has been used in job abc, which is all he needs.
>>
>>Thanks for all the suggestions so far
>>
>>--
>
>That sounds like a good idea and should work even if the library
>is only allocated and never opened.
>
>I haven't been following this thread closely. Did anyone mention
>ThruPut Manager DAL (I have no idea if you have TM)? That is
>what I used to get rid of some old libraries. Production isn't a
>problem... it's all the end users / programmers. Using TM I wrote
>a message to the joblog and the syslog when used. To the job to
>warn the programmer (which wouldn't work anyway because they
>don't pay close attention) and to the syslog so I could scan and
>follow up after the fact.
>
>PROC ID(DAL) TYPE(TM)
>/*********************************************************************/
>/* CHANGE LOG: */
>/* 07/13/2005 - MSZ - CREATED DAL TYPE(TM) */
>/* 08/09/2005 - MSZ - ADDED CHECK FOR SYS3.SOFTWARE */
>/* */
>/*********************************************************************/
>/*********************************************************************/
>/* D E F I N I T I O N S E C T I O N */
>/*********************************************************************/
>/* MESSAGE DEFINITION */
>/*********************************************************************/
>MSGDEF OLD_LE_MSG ('ZUSDTM01I - JOB '$JOBNAME' IS USING OLD' +
> ' LE LIBS! PLEASE CHANGE SYS3.CEE.* TO SYS1.CEE.*')
>MSGDEF OLD_SOFT_MSG ('ZUSDTM02I - JOB '$JOBNAME' IS USING OBSOLETE' +
> ' SYS3.SOFTWARE LIBRARY. PLEASE CONTACT Z/OS SUPPORT')
>/*********************************************************************/
>/* STRING DEFS AND EVALS */
>/*********************************************************************/
>EVALUATE OLD_LE ($DSNAME(SYS3.CEE.**))
>/* EVALUATE OLD_LE ($DSNAME(SYS1.CEE.**)) */ /* FOR TESTING */
>EVALUATE OLD_SOFT ($DSNAME(SYS3.SOFTWARE))
>/*********************************************************************/
>/* L O G I C S E C T I O N */
>/*********************************************************************/
>IF (OLD_LE)
> WTO OLD_LE_MSG
> WTU OLD_LE_MSG
>ENDIF
>IF (OLD_SOFT)
> WTO OLD_SOFT_MSG
> WTU OLD_SOFT_MSG
>ENDIF
>END
>
>
>--
>Mark Zelden
>Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead
>Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO
>mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/
>Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html
>
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